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Henry Woodfall Crowe (April 29, 1832 – November 7, 1865) was a British-Norwegian interpreter, translator, and author.


Biography

Crowe was born in Kåfjord,
Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
, the son of
John Rice Crowe Sir John Rice Crowe (November 20, 1795 – January 10, 1877) was an English businessman and diplomat who spent much of his life in Norway. He was the British consul-general in Norway, residing in Christiania, from 1843. Together with Henry Dick ...
(1795–1877) and Malene Marie Waad (1802–1843). Together with
Henry Dick Woodfall Henry Dick Woodfall (1796 – April 13, 1869) was an English businessman. Together with John Rice Crowe, he founded Alten Copper Works in Kåfjord, Norway, later renamed the Kåfjord Copper Works. Henry Woodfall was born in Scotland in 1796, the ...
, his father started the company Alten Copper Works in
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around 1826. The company was later renamed the Kåfjord Copper Works. Henry Woodfall Crowe was named after his father's business partner. He participated in the
Crimean War The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included the de ...
in 1854 and 1855 as the interpreter general to the British fleet. Crowe's diary of his experiences on the warship HMS ''Duke of Wellington'' during the war was issued as a book in 2012 by one of his relatives. At the time, ''The Duke of Wellington'' was the world's largest battleship and the ship's commander, Charles Napier, was a legend in his own time. Crowe later served as the British consul in
Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...
. Crowe died in Christiania and is buried there in Our Savior's Cemetery.


Works

* ''The Bothnia Pilot, by Admiral G. af Klint'', translated by C. Bernard Coster, revised by Henry Woodfall Crowe (1855) * ''The Crimean War Journals (1854–1855) of Henry Woodfall Crowe on Board H.M.S. Duke of Wellington'', researched and transcribed by Bernard Robert Crowe (2012)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Crowe, Henry Woodfall People from Alta, Norway 1832 births 1865 deaths